Working closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi five years ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid achieved a treasured goal that had eluded Democratic leaders since Franklin Delano Roosevelt—enactment of a national health insurance program expanding coverage to most Americans.

Strong new evidence has emerged undercutting one of the key arguments Obamacare foes are using in their U.S. Supreme Court case to disallow premium subsidies in states using the federal insurance exchange.

EHR developers are hoping the draft regulations issued Friday prove more flexible and focused than earlier editions that led to delays in software certification and tripped up providers trying to meet the requirements for using the technology.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told lawmakers Monday that the justices shouldn't take congressional gridlock into account when making decisions, a statement some think might mean he will side with the challengers in King v. Burwell.

It's not surprising that Senate Republicans have chosen to distance themselves from the House Republican plan to convert Medicare into a defined-benefit voucher program. It's also not surprising they decided to join their House colleagues in pressing to convert Medicaid into some type of capped...

The two top Democrats in Congress apparently are tussling behind the scenes over the deal to repeal and replace the Medicare physician-payment formula, and it could be because one feels left on the sidelines.

A California-based orthopedic surgery registry posted new data this week that takes a different approach to showing how well patients fared within one year of undergoing common, often expensive, musculoskeletal procedures.

Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, N.C., dramatically reduced the number of lawsuits it faces and its professional liability insurance premiums after adopting a specific methodology for handling patient complaints and grievances.

The proposed bipartisan House deal to repeal and replace Medicare's hated sustainable growth-rate physician payment system offers Republicans a chance to make two significant benefit changes they've long sought. Now it remains to be seen if they can accept and lock in that victory.

New cost-effectiveness analyses of Sovaldi and other treatments to treat chronic hepatitis C infection suggest U.S. firms initially set prices near the ceiling that the United Kingdom's National Health Service will pay for drugs.

Several years ago, Montefiore Health System in the Bronx was behind the curve when it came to health benefits costs for employees. So Montefiore implemented disease- and care-management programs to improve the health of employees before illnesses became more serious, and more expensive, problems.

A grass-roots petition to improve the affordability of cancer drugs is gathering signatures—and stories—after being posted online this month. Two weeks in, nearly 4,000 people have signed the petition asking the president, HHS and lawmakers to protest against high cancer drug prices.

The five major for-profit hospital chains enjoyed impressive results in the last three months of 2014 as their numbers of paying patients increased in tandem with the economic recovery and the health insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act.

Republican heavyweight Jeb Bush offered his ideas this past week on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. His most concrete proposal could well worsen one of the biggest consumer problems under the ACA – high out-of-pocket costs.

There is growing skepticism about provider claims that large healthcare combinations will lower costs by streamlining operations and providing better coordinated care. It would be a mistake to think preventing them will magically increase competition, much less achieve lower costs.

First McDonald's and then Costco this week announced each would no longer source poultry that had been given antibiotics also used in human healthcare. The announcement represents a seismic shift that could have major positive benefits for healthcare.

Justice Samuel Alito suggested during the King v. Burwell arguments that a simple fix for states that lose premium subsidies would be to establish their own exchanges. But even state leaders who want to—like Pennsylvania's new Democratic Gov.Tom Wolf—would face roadblocks.